Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-08

suicide on Boston Common on the Bis
ult., by shooting. The ball took effect in
his left breast, causing almost instant
death.
THE action of the Secret Service Depart
ment regarding business college currency
has called out a large number of inquiries
from commercial colleges all over the
country. Samples of currency are sent in
most cases to Chief Clerk Brooks, who
passes on them, pointing out any objec-
tionable features.
OAK GROVE SEMINARY, at Waterville,
Me-, was burned to the ground ON the
morning of the 1st A son of Stephen
Jones, aged sixteen, persisted in the
flames. The building was occupied as
school by the Society of Friends. The
school was burned a few years ago, and
the present buildings were completed last
year.
JOSIAH TERRELL was executed at Column
bus, O., on the LIST, for the murder of
Charles Phelps, and proclaimed his inno-
cence after he had been placed upon the
scaffold. The execution took place in the
annex at the penitentiary, and there were
only about fifty persons who witnessed
the scene.
HENRY KING, prominent merchant of
Georgetown, o., visited Cincinnati on
business on the 31st ult., and spent the
night with Mr.. Geo. Straub, his brother-in-
law. Early the next morning Mr.. Straub
was awakened by noise, and found that
Mr. King had in some way fallen from the
window of the second-story room to the
sidewalk and received fatal injuries.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred on John
HIPS farm about five miles east of Logans-
port, Ind, by which Henry Fletcher lost
his life. He was blasting stumps with
dynamite and had about fifty cartridges
in his possession. By some unknown
means they were all exploded, and
Fletcher was literally torn to pieces, parts
of his body being found over hundred
yards distant.
BISHOP WILLIAM L. HARRIS, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, died at New
York on the I'd.
A SLIGHT accident to Emperor William
a fall in the palace great excite
| ment in Berlin on the I'd.
TEXAS refuses to give up Hancock, the
| wife-slayer, to Louisiana, where he is also
| wanted for murder.
THE Canadian press has revived discus
| sion of the fisheries dispute with the Unit
ed States.
| ANOTHER attempt was made on the
night of the LIST to wreck train the
Wabash near Danville, Ill, by setting fire
to bridge.
OFFICIAL reports have reached Wash
| ington of the recent seizure of the custom
house at Havana.
IRISH leaders called on the people to
assemble in thousands ON the 4th, and
hold the Bally Coree meeting despite the
government proclamation.
MEMORIAL services were held by the ex-
Confederates on the I'd on the battlefield
of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn, Ark, where a
monument has been erected to Generals
| McCulloch, Mcintosh and Slack.
A TARIFF reform measure is being pre-
pared at Washington which will be in
| dorsed by the Administration and will be
approximately in conformity with the
Allentown (Pa.) declarations.
AN official explanation of the Baltimore
& Ohio "mystery" is at last given, from
which it appears that the Pennsylvania
secures control of the railroad properties
and the Western Union the telegraph sys-
tenn.
A THOROUGHBRED horse, presented to
President Diaz of Mexico by Alfonso
XII, late King of Spain, was stolen ON
| the list. No clew to the bold thieves.
| THE German-American Association of
| Technical Societies, composed mainly of
| engineers, began its annual convention in
| New York on the ID, with delegates from
Chicago, Cincinnati and St Louis.
| SAMMIE, the oldest of the last two Den
mead brothers, the New Jersey herm1ts,
has become insane, refusing nourishment,
| because he says people are seeking his life.
He is very weak and can not last long.
| C.. NJ. HovEY, the veteran horticulturist,
died at his home in Cambridge, Mass, on
i the I'd, aged about seventy-seven. Mr..
| Hovey was the best-known American
pomologist and horticulturist in this
country, having devoted lifetime to
| these pursuits.
| THE acceptance by the Porte of Russia g
terms for the government of Bulgaria
| pending the election of a new Sobranje
and later new prince, widens the breach
between Russia and the people of Bull
| garia, and also between the latter and
| Prince Ferdinand.
] A FIRE broke out in the magnificent
abbey and college of the Catholic church
at ST. Meinard, Spencer County, Ind. an
| interior town fifteen miles south of Hunt
ington, and despite the heroic efforts of
about one hundred men, the entire struct-
ure, together with most of it's contents,
| was destroyed.